http://www.bcit.ca/search/?restrict=courses&site ¼it&client¼it&proxystylesheet¼it&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=0&getfields=fulltitle&q=bldc
Before even looking at the links, what are you now, where do you want to end
up, and how do you plan to get there?

Well, as some of you know, I currently do graphic design, however, I
also have Autocad, as well as clients and potential clients, including
those who I've designed furniture for, interested in my doing
architectural designwork for them over time-- in foreign countries
too-- certainly an attractive, and even romantic notion.
I also feel dissatisfied with the lack of concreteness, intangeability
or impracticality of flat graphic design in general, versus
architectural in specific. I prefer my designs to exist beyond the
flat or the virtual. I also like the idea of a kind of independence,
insofar as knowing how a house is put together, and being able to
build one.
I have also been interested forever in alternative and green
architecture and sources of energy, such as solar and wind, as well of
course as a general interest in architecture (ie., been here on
alt.arch for over 4 years), and my aptitudes (and old aptitude tests)
consistently have it among the highest on the list.
Since I already have Autocad, I suspect that courses specifically
dealing with architecture, rather than software, would be preferrable,
although, I suppose I could learn it on the job if I was to get one
more easily with extra software skills.
As for a full-blown degree in architecture, I suppose that's possible,
too, but for now, it's one thing at a time. :)

I sure wish I had a real school of architecture accessible to me. The school
I graduated from in my locale is narrow in its focus and does not provide
useful education and training for one's self to actually work in a real
architectural firm, doing real work, for real people. The btic course
curriculum appears to do so. Wow!
So yes, by all means take more classes but note the focus on CAD is
production work cranking out CD's drafting for an architectural employer.
That's going to get you employed as a grunt because the CD's are what the
architect gets paid for and you will only learn about those types of
buildings the employer is able to get jobs for. If you want to learn about
other typologies you'll have to go work for some other architectural firm.
You spend half of your career begging for a job. Eventually you sit in a
corner cranking out the same sh!t day in and day out. Furthermore, CAD and
drafting are not what most architects actually do after they get their
license when they have to get into the business of architecture.
You see, architecture is now controlled by fascists hence all licensed
architects are fascists. The fascists determine who can work and who can not
work and they establish the terms. If you do not submit yourself to working
for them and making them money they will not allow you to get a license.
That means you will never actually be working as an architect and if you try
to do so the fascists can and have you criminally prosecuted as if you were
a criminal for drawing pictures. If you are not the architect you will
always be "staff" and in the larger firms even the architects become
"staff."
So, the question is are you are prepared to become a fascist? If so you need
to learn what that really means in the real world, where architects and
others that are licensed become fascists. Learn about fascism and recognize
fascism for what it is and how fascism as currently used by those who
control what would otherwise be our freedoms and liberties to persue
happiness. For those who actually know the law and the princicples of what
was once a fine and honorable nation, America was founded on such laws and
principles but the Jewnited States and fascism is how the nation has become.
Learn about fascism and you'll know everything you need to know to make
decisions about a "career" because most choices are not yours at all. Your
choices will be dictated by the fascists and all you need to figure out is
if you want to submit to their will or not or do something else with your
life.
Software development for example remains genuinely merit based and even
mid-level jobs pay as much or as well as the highest paid architects. What
about being free to seek your own success for example? I never even heard of
any architects designing something in their basement that they could sell to
somebody like a Google for $1.6 billion. Now, do you still want to be a
draftsman for fascists who might or might not like you enough to allow you
to get a license and actually become an architect?
Now, If I were smart enough to understand what is being said here -- and --
I did not intend to become a licensed fascist and though my life's work
could be accomplised as an employee grunt I would still teach myself to use
Revit and I would learn how to develop software using C# and the Microsoft
.NET Framework.
That way I could employ myself working as the grunt giving me a fall-back
position while I spent my time developing a nefarious plan to write software
and develop skills coding software applications that integrate with Revit
and other software used in construction processes building on my entire
knowledge base keeping it interesting allowing me to one day own, sell and
control my own product or service.
That's my life plan dude. Be good enough at something you own and control
which will turn the fascists into your customers and they will then pay you
and dependent on you. Which way do you want it to be? Fascism or Freedom?

AFAIK, BCIT's courses in that regard are for architectural technicians
and architectural "scientists" ( http://www.bcit.ca/study/programs/8050btech
) , rather than architects. However, I understand how the above degree
would be a good background for entry to post grad study for the
architect designation.

I suppose then that it's good that I posted a new thread called
Contracts. ;)

Really?! Is that how it works? Well, could an architect-to-be and an
already-architect friend license them?

:(
Like Martha Stewart and her salad, I just want to focus on my house
design.
"On June 25, 2002, she appeared on CBS' The Early Show, and when asked
by Jane Clayson about the ImClone scandal during a cooking segment,
she replied, 'I just want to focus on my salad.' "

Is Martha Stewart or Cathy Lee Gifford Jewish?
What about the smartest Enron guys in the room?

What if I am self-employed, or decide to live with "natives" somewhere
in a forest that is under threat to logging and/or other "development"
interests?

Maybe that's in part why architects might feel the need to be fascist.

Maybe they write floor-plan books.

Maybe yes, if it was a she, and she wore black leather and lace,
chained me to her desk, expected me to ass-kiss and made me clean her
pencil-erasers and vacuum her carpet after-hours.
I hear the male to female ratio makes this scenerio more likely than
ever before.

What are you doing? Architecture?

That's the idea!

I wish you well... You might like to consider hooking up with Per
Corel-- seriously.
I think he writes software plugins for Architecture CAD.

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